"I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined."

-- Thomas Nagel

#Responsibility Quotes #Choices Quotes #Determined Quotes

“If I go anywhere where there are people who vaguely look like me, there is always that feeling of, 'Actually I do look quite similar to everyone else.' At moments like that, I become very, very British. My accent gets more clipped, and I stride around as if I've got an empire.”
“The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture.”
“You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.”
“For me, I make a schedule and I pass the time. I don't think about the transformation. When my schedule says I'm finished on this day, I put it in the past and go toward my future.”
“Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my room: verdant grass, silver-tipped oak leaves, tall palm trees gentle swaying as they reach to the sky, masses and masses of roses. All colors, so many shapes, exquisite fragrances.”
“Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.”
“However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks the cradlerules his world. . . . The son never forgets that he owes his life to his mother, not just the creation of it but the maintenance of it, and that he owes her a debt he cannot conceivably repay, but which she may call in at any time.”
“Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.”

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